The Democratic house speaker has never been implicated in insider trading even though she might have had a conflict of interest in 2007 amid discussions of legislation that would have affected the company Visa.
No less than 136 countries have reached a deal that would set a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 percent. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced the agreement on Friday.
A U.S. delegation will meet with Taliban officials in Doha, Qatar Saturday and Sunday in the first in-person meeting between the U.S. and Taliban since the late August withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
Most major companies requiring vaccines for workers are owned by BlackRock Inc., which in turn owns the pharmaceutical companies producing Covid-19 vaccines.
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“Scared” Chinese manufacturers of Western electronics components are being starved of electricity by their own government, causing some to consider leaving the country — and putting a real pinch on this year’s Christmas shopping.
The CIA announced on Thursday the creation of a new China Mission Center to better strengthen the agency’s resolve against what it deemed to be the “most important geopolitical threat” to the United States.
